The Russian team Team Spirit won the Counter Strike 2 championship in Poland. The prize fund of the tournament was one million dollars.
The finals of Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Katowice 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland on Sunday, February 11. In it, Team Spirit met with the European team FaZe Clan, which they defeated with a score of 3:0 on the maps. The Russians played 13:9 on Nuke, 13:11 on Mirage, and 13:3 on Overpass. At the same time, within the framework of the championship, Team Spirit won seven victories in a row.
The team’s winnings amounted to 400 thousand dollars (36.5 million rubles). In addition, the Russians received invitations to the next three competitions — IEM Cologne 2024, BLAST Premier World Final and Esports World Cup 2024. The FaZe Clan team, which won second place in the tournament, received 180 thousand dollars (almost 16.5 million rubles) for this result ).
Team Spirit includes Russian natives Leonid Vishnyakov (chopper), Dmitry Sokolov (sh1ro), Boris Vorobyov (magixx) and Danil Kryshkovets (donk). In addition, the team includes Ukrainian Miroslav Plahot (zont1x).
Now the team will have to take part in the RMR competition in Bucharest as part of the qualifying tournament for the CS 2 PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 championship. The game is scheduled for February 19.
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It is noteworthy that previously Team Spirit was mainly associated with the success of its Dota roster, which won victories in two The Internationals. However, now Counter Strike players are not lagging behind the dota players. The current trophy was the first for the team in CS 2, and for some members of the team, the championship in Katowice was the first major LAN tournament in their careers — we are talking, in particular, about 17-year-old Danil Kryshkovec. He was recognized as the best player of the championship with a rating of 1.70 — this is the best indicator in the entire history of the competition.
By the way, Team Spirit’s dota players won their last major victory in October 2023, taking their second The International after beating Gaimin Gladiator at a tournament in Seattle. They received $1.4 million for the victory, and experts rated this performance as one of the best in the history of the championship. Find out more about how it happened and what is known about the players.